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A Shot in the Park
The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...
Civil War Unmasked in 'Living Hell'
This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond) Often I am asked what most surprised me during the researching of Living Hell. My...
Diagnosing Mary Lincoln
Mary Lincoln has been a mystery for more than 150 years. Irritable as the wife of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, erratic as First Lady, and frankly psychotic as a widow, she died at the young age of 63 after years of unusual physical symptoms and progressively...
The Army's Journey
Thomas F. Army, Jr., is an adjunct assistant professor of history at Quinebaug Valley Community College. His latest project, Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War is available now. In researching my book, Engineering Victory: How Technology Won...
“History does not record a more horrible crime,” Maryland and the death of Abraham Lincoln
Guest post by Charles W. Mitchell “I had never witnessed such a scene as was now presented. The seats, aisles, galleries, and stage were filled with shouting, frenzied men and women, many running aimlessly over one another; a chaos of disorder beyond control.”...
Unearthing rare images and unique stories of African American Civil War soldiers
Guest post by Ronald S. Coddington After my second book, Faces of the Confederacy, debuted in 2008, colleagues and friends asked me about my next project. I answered that African American soldiers would be the focus of my next volume. My reply was met with a...